France is the top agricultural producer in the European Union (EU), and agriculture plays a prominent role in the …

macroeconomic stability, political support, and adequate private investment. Macroeconomic stability is defined as fiscal balance …; political feasibility is related to the income gains and losses of different population groups; and private investment is linked … to public “infrastructure” investment. The analysis illustrates that attainment of the multiple requirements for …

Even modest investment rates may achieve satisfactory rates of growth in the reforming economies of Eastern Europe … investment is uncertainty about the reform process, which can potentially rule out all but the most profitable projects. This … form of loans and foreign direct investment …

Rapid credit growth in Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine has been driven by successful macroeconomic stabilization, robust … Ukraine. Policy responses have included attempts to both moderate credit growth and offset its impact on domestic demand, with …

This paper examines determinants of inflation in Ukraine during 1993-2002 in a cointegrating framework. Two basic …

We analyze the impact of trade policy uncertainty on investment in the euro area. Our identification strategy assumes … that countries that are relatively more dependent on global trade networks exhibit a higher sensitivity of investment with … respect to trade uncertainty. We find that the investment-to-GDP ratio is on average 0.8 percentage points lower for five …

This paper examines the recent difficulties experienced in U.S. agriculture, and discusses the role played by …